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Pixelated static image of a figure with dark hair and light skin against a pale blue background, wearing dark clothing.

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Pixelated static image of a figure with dark hair and light skin against a pale blue background, wearing dark clothing.

Pixelated static image of a figure with dark hair and light skin against a pale blue background, wearing dark clothing. 43×50 JPG AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us JP…

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Source terms

Composition

  • partial face view
  • cropped at shoulders

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial view of a person's head and upper torso. The figure has short dark hair, visible on the left side of the frame. Light gray or off-white facial features are present including an eye with black pupil and eyebrow detail. Dark clothing appears below the shoulders. Background is solid pale blue. Image exhibits heavy pixelation typical of low-resolution digital capture from early 2000s web interfaces.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a figure with dark hair and light skin against a pale blue background, wearing dark clothing.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): buddy-icons-us
  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): jpeg
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY
  • observation alt-text (broad): efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY
  • observation file-name (broad): efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY
  • collection identity (broad; hint): buddy-icons-us
  • collection identity (broad; hint): jpeg
  • observation category (broad): buddyicons
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): buddyicons
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): e
  • observation category (broad): e
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us JPEG Captures
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us JPEG Captures Relaxed

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons-us
  • jpeg
  • efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY
  • buddyicons
  • e

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person partial face pale blue background dark hair light skin

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a low-quality JPEG compression artifact from early web era

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): buddy-icons-us
  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): jpeg
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY
  • observation alt-text (broad): efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY
  • observation file-name (broad): efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY
  • collection identity (broad; hint): buddy-icons-us
  • collection identity (broad; hint): jpeg
  • observation category (broad): buddyicons
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): buddyicons
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): e
  • observation category (broad): e
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us JPEG Captures
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us JPEG Captures Relaxed

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • static image
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • pale blue background
  • partial face view
  • single eye visible
  • dark clothing

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Added to archive
July 9, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us JPEG Captures

Source title
efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / e
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:09 UTC

Original record Source download

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us JPEG Captures Relaxed

Source title
efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / e
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 04:20 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
JPG
Dimensions
43×50 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
icons/4e/4eb5d2814a5e089aacd55dd49180dffd6460fef5aa33842426f32534d4dd794d.jpg
Media type
image/jpeg
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 9, 2026 at 23:09 UTC
Archive ID
4eb5d2814a5e089a
SHA-256
4eb5d2814a5e089aacd55dd49180dffd6460fef5aa33842426f32534d4dd794d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:19 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.129435

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.870565onnx/unsafe0.129435onnx/nsfw0.085745onnx/nsfl0.043690
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated static image of a figure with dark hair and light skin against a pale blue background, wearing dark clothing.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 07:37 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,282 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,096, response 983

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pale blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital capture (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pale blue
  • black
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • partial face view
  • cropped at shoulders

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial view of a person's head and upper torso. The figure has short dark hair, visible on the left side of the frame. Light gray or off-white facial features are present including an eye with black pupil and eyebrow detail. Dark clothing appears below the shoulders. Background is solid pale blue. Image exhibits heavy pixelation typical of low-resolution digital capture from early 2000s web interfaces.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a figure with dark hair and light skin against a pale blue background, wearing dark clothing.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): buddy-icons-us
  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): jpeg
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY
  • observation alt-text (broad): efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY
  • observation file-name (broad): efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY
  • collection identity (broad; hint): buddy-icons-us
  • collection identity (broad; hint): jpeg
  • observation category (broad): buddyicons
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): buddyicons
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): e
  • observation category (broad): e
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us JPEG Captures
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us JPEG Captures Relaxed

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons-us
  • jpeg
  • efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY
  • buddyicons
  • e

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person partial face pale blue background dark hair light skin

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a low-quality JPEG compression artifact from early web era

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): buddy-icons-us
  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): jpeg
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY
  • observation alt-text (broad): efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY
  • observation file-name (broad): efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY
  • collection identity (broad; hint): buddy-icons-us
  • collection identity (broad; hint): jpeg
  • observation category (broad): buddyicons
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): buddyicons
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): e
  • observation category (broad): e
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us JPEG Captures
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us JPEG Captures Relaxed

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital capture

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • static image
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • pale blue background
  • partial face view
  • single eye visible
  • dark clothing
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 23:24 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Full source records (2)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us JPEG Captures (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-jpegs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl
Category
buddyicons / e
Alt
efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:09 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
JPEG AIM-era buddy-icon material from a dedicated portal domain
Original: http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/e/efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY.jpg Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20060228001521id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/e/efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY.jpg 
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us JPEG Captures Relaxed (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-jpegs-relaxed)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl relaxed-size pass
Category
buddyicons / e
Alt
efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 04:20 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
relaxed-size JPEG AIM-era buddy-icon portal material, including narrow/tall and larger avatar-format candidates
Original: http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/e/efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY.jpg Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20060228001521id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/e/efcd3f7e443-IMBUDDY.jpg